Panda Bear (musician) Solo work What was his solo work like? has been variously characterized as experimental pop, electronic, bedroom pop, neo-psychedelic pop, and indie rock. What was an album he cut during his solo work? Lennox's debut album Panda Bear was released in 1999 What singles came from that album? I don't know. Did he tour solo? After focusing more on touring and recording with Animal Collective, he released the follow-up Young Prayer in 2004
Was Young Prayer successful?
Was Young Prayer successful?
Lennox's early musical influences included electronic styles, and his solo work has been variously characterized as experimental pop, electronic, bedroom pop, neo-psychedelic pop, and indie rock. Lennox's debut album Panda Bear was released in 1999 on Soccer Star Records. After focusing more on touring and recording with Animal Collective, he released the follow-up Young Prayer in 2004 and the highly acclaimed third solo album Person Pitch in 2007. Of his songwriting style, Lennox says "I get impatient writing songs, I can't spend more than a couple of hours before I get frustrated. So I got to kind of spit it out real fast. My favorite songs are the ones where I worked really really fast on, when it comes all out in like two hours or something."  Panda Bear's fourth album Tomboy was released April 12, 2011 on his own label, Paw Tracks. He had started performing material from Tomboy on December 5, 2008, at a show with No Age in Miami, Florida. During a brief European tour in January 2010, he played three shows consisting almost entirely of new material. On March 7, 2010, a tour setlist with titles for ten of the new songs was posted on Panda Bear's MySpace blog. Panda Bear has also played Primavera Sound Festival in 2010. The single "Tomboy" and the b-side "Slow Motion" were released in July 2010. It was announced in August that singles "You Can Count on Me" and "Alsatian Darn" would be released via Domino on September 28. The limited 500 copies of "You Can Count On Me" sold out in less than a day. The single "Last Night at the Jetty" was released December 2010. The single "Surfer's Hymn" was released March 28, 2011.  His song "Comfy In Nautica" appears in ABC's 2010 global warming movie Earth 2100  Lennox was chosen by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that he planned to curate in December 2011 in Minehead, England. However, Lennox was unable to play when the event was rescheduled to March 2012.  In June 2013, Panda Bear performed a set of all new material at ATP. In October 2014, the Mr Noah EP was released, featuring four new songs. The full album, Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper, was released in January 2015. CANNOTANSWER
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Noah Benjamin Lennox (born July 17, 1978), also known by his moniker Panda Bear, is an American musician, singer-songwriter and co-founding member of the band Animal Collective. In addition to his work with that group, Lennox has released six solo LPs since 1999. His third, Person Pitch (2007), is noted for influencing a wide range of subsequent indie music in addition to inspiring the chillwave genre and numerous soundalike acts.

Lennox was primarily raised in Baltimore, Maryland, where he sang tenor in his high school chamber choir, and studied piano and cello. The name "Panda Bear" derived from his habit of drawing pandas on his early mixtapes as a teenager. He and the other members of Animal Collective began collaborating in the late 1990s. He has lived in Lisbon, Portugal since 2004.

Early life
Lennox grew up in the Roland Park section of Baltimore, Maryland, and attended Waldorf School of Baltimore through 8th grade, and Kimberton Waldorf School in Chester County, Pennsylvania for high school. His family moved frequently during his early years, owing to his father's studies to be an orthopedic surgeon. As a youth, he played sports, mainly soccer and basketball. His brother, Matt Lennox (the Animal Collective song "Brother Sport" is directed at him), was a leading player on the high school basketball team and Noah was also a team member, playing as point guard.

Lennox has also stated in interviews that he enjoyed drawing a lot as a teenager, especially pandas, and later started drawing pandas on his early mixtapes. He also studied piano until he was eight, then cello, and later on he sang tenor in his high school chamber choir.

Though he and his family have never been very religious, Lennox briefly attended Boston University, where he majored in religion because of his interest in "the concept of God".

Career

Animal Collective

As a teen, Lennox began listening to electronic music styles such as house and techno, and artists such as Aphex Twin, all of which became a major influence on his later work. He recorded and performed music—solo and with friends. Lennox started using the name "Panda Bear" because he drew pictures of pandas for the artwork of his recordings.

Lennox had been friends with Deakin (Josh Dibb) since the second grade. Deakin introduced Lennox to his high school friends Avey Tare (Dave Portner) and Geologist (Brian Weitz). For years, the four of them swapped homemade recordings, shared musical ideas and performed in different group configurations. Lennox, along with Deakin moved to New York in 2000. The band then became more collaborative in nature and they finally settled on the name "Animal Collective". 

Since the 2007 releases of Panda Bear's Person Pitch and Animal Collective's Strawberry Jam, he has focused more on using samplers and other electronics in their shows. He has named Black Dice as a major influence stating "Black Dice took us on our first tour and I feel like the wisest things I've learned about being in a band I learned by watching them." He said he looks to Black Dice "as a model for a band... I feel like as a band, I can't speak for the other guys [of Animal Collective], but certainly for myself, like I modelled the way I approach to everything with the band watching the way Black Dice did it." In addition to singing, Lennox played drums and occasionally guitar in Animal Collective's live performances. He cites Stewart Copeland as the biggest influence on his drumming style.

Solo work
Lennox's early musical influences included electronic styles, and his solo work has been variously characterized as experimental pop, electronic, bedroom pop, neo-psychedelic pop, and indie music. The Line of Best Fit called him a "psychedelic pop trailblazer." Lennox's debut album Panda Bear was released in 1999 on Soccer Star Records. After focusing more on touring and recording with Animal Collective, he released the follow-up Young Prayer in 2004 and the highly acclaimed third solo album Person Pitch in 2007.  Of his songwriting style, Lennox says "I get impatient writing songs, I can't spend more than a couple of hours before I get frustrated. So I got to kind of spit it out real fast. My favorite songs are the ones where I worked really really fast on, when it comes all out in like two hours or something."

Panda Bear's fourth album, Tomboy, was released April 12, 2011, on his own label, Paw Tracks. He started performing material from Tomboy on December 5, 2008, at a show with No Age in Miami, Florida. During a brief European tour in January 2010, he played three shows consisting almost entirely of new material. On March 7, 2010, a tour setlist with titles for ten of the new songs was posted on Panda Bear's MySpace blog. He also played Primavera Sound Festival in 2010. The single "Tomboy" and the b-side "Slow Motion" were released in July 2010. It was announced in August that singles "You Can Count on Me" and "Alsatian Darn" would be released via Domino on September 28. The limited 500 copies of "You Can Count On Me" sold out in less than a day. The single "Last Night at the Jetty" was released December 2010. The single "Surfer's Hymn" was released March 28, 2011.

His song "Comfy In Nautica" appears in ABC's 2010 global warming movie Earth 2100.

Lennox was chosen by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he planned to curate in December 2011 in Minehead, England. However, Lennox was unable to play when the event was rescheduled to March 2012.

In June 2013, Panda Bear performed a set of all new material at ATP. In October 2014, the Mr Noah EP was released, featuring four new songs. The full album, Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper, was released in January 2015.

In 2018, Lennox released the vinyl-only A Day With the Homies EP, a collection of five songs heavily influenced by house + bass music. Included on the packaging of the release were hidden URLs that pointed to samples used on the EP. In February 2019, he released the LP Buoys, featuring production work by longtime collaborator Rusty Santos. It was preceded by the single "Dolphin".

Outside musical collaborations
Lennox plays in the band Jane and Together with DJ Scott Mou. He has also performed on tracks with Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox of Deerhunter), Ducktails (Matt Mondanile, best known as the former lead guitarist of the American indie rock band Real Estate) and electronic musicians Zomby and Pantha du Prince.

Panda Bear appeared on the track "Doin' It Right" on the 2013 Daft Punk album Random Access Memories. The album won Daft Punk the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2014, making Panda Bear a co-winner.

Personal life
In 2004, Lennox moved from New York City to Lisbon, Portugal. He first visited the city for a vacation following a long Animal Collective tour in 2003. Lennox says about Lisbon: "Since I got off the airplane here [for the first time] I had a good feeling about this place." He met his wife, the fashion designer Fernanda Pereira, there; after visiting each other in Lisbon and New York, Lennox decided to move to Europe because he also felt "connected to the European way of life", considering himself as a "slow moving kind of person" and Lisbon as a "slow moving kind of place". Lennox and Pereira have a daughter, Nadja, born in 2005 and a son, born in June 2010. In 2007, he and Pereira collaborated on a line of sweatshirts called 2nd Things.

Musical equipment
Synthesizers
 Minimoog Voyager
 Korg M3

Digital samplers
 Elektron Octatrack
 Roland SP-555 
 Boss SP-303 "Dr. Sample"
 Teenage Engineering OP-1

Drum machine/synthesizer
 JoMoX Xbase 999

Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

Singles
"I'm Not/Comfy in Nautica" (September 22, 2005, UUAR)
"Bros" (December 4, 2006, Fat Cat Records)
"Carrots" (January 23, 2007, Paw Tracks)
"Take Pills" (June 19, 2007, Paw Tracks)
"Tomboy" (July 13, 2010, Paw Tracks)
"You Can Count on Me" (October 19, 2010, Domino)
"Last Night at the Jetty" (December 13, 2010, FatCat Records)
"Surfer's Hymn" (March 28, 2011, Kompakt)
"Mr Noah" (October 23, 2014, Domino)
"Boys Latin" (December 15, 2014, Domino)
"Crosswords" (August 20, 2015, Domino)
"Dolphin" (November 8, 2018, Domino)
"Token" (January 14, 2019, Domino)
"Playing the Long Game" (October 9, 2019, Domino)

Remixes
"Boneless" (remix of Notwist song "Boneless") on "Boneless" 7"
"As Young As Yesterday" (remix of Korallreven song "As Young As Yesterday") on "As Young As Yesterday" 12" (2011)
"Cheap Treat (Panda Bear Version)" (remix of Eric Copeland song "Cheap Treat") on "Remixes" EP.
"Melody Unfair (Panda Bear Remix)" on Essence of Eucalyptus by Avey Tare
"Never Ending Game (Panda Bear Remix)" on Bigger House by Angel Du$t

Appearances
One untitled track on Visionaire 53 – Sound (December 1, 2007, Visionaire Publishing, LLC)
"Anna" on the album East of Eden by Taken by Trees (September 7, 2009)
"Walkabout" on the album Logos by Atlas Sound (October 20, 2009)
"Stick to My Side" on the album Black Noise by Pantha du Prince (February 9, 2010)
"Killin the Vibe" (bonus track) on the album Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics by Ducktails (January 18, 2011)
"Atiba Song" composed music for a skateboarding montage directed by Atiba Jefferson and Ty Evans. The track was initially created by Atiba, then finished by Panda Bear.
"The Preakness" on the cassette tape Keep + Animal Collective (March 2011, Keep)
"Things Fall Apart" on the album Dedication by Zomby (July 11, 2011)
"Pyjama" on the album Tracer by Teengirl Fantasy (August 21, 2012)
"Doin' It Right" on the album Random Access Memories by Daft Punk (May 17, 2013)
"Time (Is)", "Binz", "Beltway" and "I'm a Witness" on the album When I Get Home by Solange (March 1, 2019)
"I Don't Need a Crowd" on the I Don't Need a Crowd/The One That Got Away 7" by Paul Maroon (March 15, 2019)
 "Studie" on the album Anicca by Teebs (September 18, 2019)
 "Gameday Continues" on the album HBCU Gameday by Sporting Life. (January 27, 2020)
 "Just a Little Piece of Me" on the album All Things Being Equal  by Sonic Boom. (June 5, 2020)

References

External links
Interview from 2008 on Onhiat.us
Ola's Kool Kitchen on Radio 23 – Panda Bear Live, Primavera 2010

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Living people
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Polly Young (also known as Mary Young, Maria Young, Polly Barthélemon and Maria Barthélemon) (7 July 1749 – 20 September 1799) was an English soprano, composer and keyboard player. She was part of a well-known English family of musicians that included several professional singers and organists during the 17th and 18th centuries. Her husband, François-Hippolyte Barthélémon, was a composer and violinist, and their daughter, Cecilia Maria Barthélemon, was also a composer and opera singer.

Biography
Polly Young was born in Covent Garden, London on 7 July 1749. Her father, Charles Young, was a clerk at the Treasury. She was the youngest of three daughters, her oldest sister Isabella becoming a successful soprano and her other sister Elizabeth a successful contralto. Both her grandfather, Charles Young, and her great-uncle, Anthony Young, were notable organists and composers. She also had three famous aunts who were all notable singers. Her aunt Cecilia (1712–1789) was one of the greatest English sopranos of the 18th century and the wife of composer Thomas Arne. Their son, Michael Arne, was also a successful composer. Her aunt Isabella was a successful soprano and the wife of composer John Frederick Lampe, while her aunt Esther was a well-known contralto and wife to Charles Jones, a successful music publisher in England during the 18th century.

Young was a child prodigy and began performing as a singer and harpsichordist at a young age. In 1755, at the age of 6, she travelled to Ireland with her aunt Cecilia and her husband Thomas Arne. While there she performed for Dublin audiences in Arne's opera Eliza, impressing them with her singing "perfectly in Time and Tune". The trip, however, was somewhat ill-fated as the Arnes' marital problems came to a head, partly arising from a dispute over Young's education, and Thomas left his wife. Young remained in Ireland with Mrs Arne for the next seven years where she studied music with her aunt and performed in concert and on the stage in Dublin. In 1758 Mrs. Arne's friend Mrs Delany wrote "the race of Youngs are born songsters and musicians" after hearing Young play the harpsichord. She notably portrayed the role of Ariel in William Shakespeare's The Tempest at the Smock Alley Theatre in 1761. Playwright John O'Keeffe was particularly taken by her performance and complimented her on her "charming face and small figure".

In September 1762 Young returned to London to make her début on the London stage at the Covent Garden theatre where she sang and played the harpsichord between acts. The Theatrical Review commented on her charming, innocent appearance: "Her performance on the harpsichord, is equal to her excellence in singing". Young continued to perform in this way at Covent Garden for the next two seasons and then went on to sing minor parts with the Italian opera company at the King's Theatre in the autumn of 1764. While there she met the French violinist and composer François-Hippolyte Barthélémon, who was the leader of the company's orchestra. The two became romantically involved soon after and Young married Barthélemon in December 1766.

Following her marriage, Young mostly appeared in performances with her husband at the Italian opera, in oratorios and in performances at the pleasure gardens. Young also began to compose and publish music; most notably a set of six sonatas for harpsichord or piano and violin was published in 1776 under the name Maria Barthélemon. The Barthélemons travelled to Ireland to perform fairly often and had a highly successful tour of Europe in 1776–77. While on tour, Young sang in her husband's oratorio Jefte in Florence and gave concerts before Marie Antoinette and her sister Maria Carolina of Austria, the de facto Queen of Naples. The Barthélemons' daughter, Cecilia Maria, also sang in these performances. The family continued to prosper after returning to London in 1777, giving numerous lauded concerts in venues throughout the city.

In the 1780s the Barthélemons' careers became less successful and they found work increasingly hard to get. Young complained in a letter to The Morning Post on 2 November 1784 that she was refused engagements, styling herself "an English Woman, of an unblemished reputation". Regardless, the Barthélemons managed to scrape by and were never outside of the important music circles in London. Haydn visited the couple while he was in England in 1792. In May of that year he accompanied Young in airs by Handel and Sacchini in a London concert.

In 1786 Young published a set of six English and Italian songs, Op. 2. Subsequently the Barthélemons began attending the chapel at the Asylum for Female Orphans which was near their home in Vauxhall. While there they became heavily influenced by the Swedenborgian preacher Duché. This influence led Young to compose and publish a number of hymns and anthems. In 1795 she composed three hymns and three anthems (Op. 3) for use at the Magdalen Chapels and the Asylum. That same year she composed The Weaver's Prayer for a benefit concert that raised money to help unemployed weavers and an ode on the preservation of the king (Op. 5) that used words by Baroness Nolcken, another Swedenborgian.

Works
 6 Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin, Op.1 (1776)
 6 English and Italian Songs, Op.2 (1786)
 3 Hymns and 3 Anthems, Op.3 (1795)
 The Weaver's Prayer, Op.4 (1795)
 Ode on the Preservation of the King, Op.5 (1795)

References

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19th-century English people The Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network is a Pontifical Society of the Catholic Church, which encourages Catholics to prayer and action as part of the church's universal mission. The Network provides monthly prayer intentions determined by the Pope. It is particularly inspired by devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and its compassion for the world.

Founded in 1844 as the Apostleship of Prayer and renamed in 2016, this ecclesiastic service became a pontifical work in March 2018 when Pope Francis approved the new statutes. In December 2020, the Pope constituted this Pontifical Society as a Vatican Foundation. Today the PWPN, which includes the branch specifically dedicated to young people aged between seven and 18: the Eucharistic Youth Movement (EYM), is present in 89 countries with a membership of more than 22 million Catholics worldwide.

The International Director of the PWPN is Frédéric Fornos, SJ, who was appointed in 2016.

History: The Apostleship of Prayer

The beginnings 
The Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network, originally called the Apostleship of Prayer, was founded in 1844 in the south of France; in a house of formation for young Jesuits in Vals-près-le-Puy. The initiative was first proposed by a Jesuit priest, Francis Xavier Gautrelet, who at the time was spiritual director to the students. On the eve of the feast day of Saint Francis Xavier (2 December 1844), he outlined the original idea to them in a meditation. This initiative was later to develop into the Apostleship of Prayer, and now today, into the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network.

The concrete practice that Father Gautrelet suggested to his students to keep this spirit alive was a prayer every morning to offer up the day.

Further developments 
In 1861, Jesuit Father Henri Ramière provided a new dynamism for the Apostleship and framed this proposal in a missionary perspective: devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It was Father Ramiére who formalized and structured the Apostleship of Prayer; and thus he is considered, after Father Gautrelet, a second founder. By that time the Apostleship already had 13 million members.

The practices of the Apostleship of Prayer spread widely among local farmers and young Christians in the countryside around Vals-près-le-Puy. In just a few years, this prayer proposal gained popularity throughout the country and reached millions of followers worldwide. Apostleship of Prayer groups formed in Catholic parishes and institutions while the original idea took on a visible structured form as an ecclesiastic association.

The Pope’s prayer intentions 

Between 1890 and 1896, Pope Leo XIII became interested in participating in this immense network of Catholics offering their lives and their dedication to spiritually support the mission of the Church. He incorporated the Apostleship as a special mission of the Pope and entrusted the association to the Society of Jesus in the person of the Father General. Furthermore, he began to commend a monthly prayer intention to the Apostleship of Prayer where he expressed his concerns and asked all Catholics to pray for them.

The process of recreation: the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network 
From 2010 onwards, a process of reflection and discernment commenced with the participation of national directors and coordinators in order to accommodate the Apostleship of Prayer to today's world. The proposal presented to Pope Francis in 2014 suggested the introduction of the “Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network”, which was finally established in 2015 with a new logo.

On Sunday 8 January 2017, during the Angelus in St Peters Square, Pope Francis used the new name for the first time when he urged the faithful the world over to unite with him in prayer.“I would also like to invite you to join in the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, which spreads, also through social networks, the prayer intentions I propose for the Church each month. In this way, the Apostleship of Prayer moves forward and communion grows”.Then in 2018, Pope Francis declared the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network, formerly known as the Apostleship of Prayer, a pontifical work with official headquarters in the State of the City of the Vatican. In December 2020, the Pope constituted this Pontifical Society as a Vatican Foundation.

The 175th Anniversary 
On 28 June 2019, Pope Francis welcomed a delegation of his Worldwide Prayer Network to the Vatican on the 175th anniversary of the founding of the original Apostleship of Prayer. More than 6,000 delegates attended, along with another 7,500 members following on Facebook live.

The Holy See announced on 3 December 2020 that the Pope had established the Worldwide Prayer Network Foundation as an entity with juridical identity.

The Eucharistic Youth Movement 
The Eucharistic Youth Movement (EYM) is the youth branch of the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network. The EYM helps its members (aged seven to 18) to deepen their relationship with Jesus according to the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius.

The origins of the EYM go back to 1914, when the International Eucharist Congress of Lourdes called for “a great Eucharistic league of the very young, who from childhood onwards would reawaken a general movement towards Holy Communion." Beginning at that Eucharistic Congress, groups known as “Eucharistic leagues” or “Children’s Prayer Crusades” were formed. Some of these were connected to the Apostleship of Prayer. The Eucharistic Crusade (founded 1915) was originally part of the Bordeaux Crusade; now it is part of EYM.

Initiatives and projects 
The renewal process for the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network strives to increase access to digital communication in order to reach young people. Consequently, several media initiatives and apps were launched.

Click To Pray 

Click To Pray, launched on March 4, 2016, is an app to help people pray the Pope's monthly intentions. The app also offers teaching aids for daily prayer and coordinates the prayer intentions of millions through the “wall of prayer”. Click To Pray is available in seven languages and is present on most social media. It also has its own blog and newsletter.

The Pope Video 

The Pope Video is an initiative which seeks to share the Pope's monthly prayer intentions. In a monthly video, the Pope faces the camera to ask for prayers. The first video was launched in January 2016. It has its own website.

Click To Pray eRosary 
Click To Pray eRosary is an application in five languages. It encourages people to pray the rosary for peace in the world. The app was launched in October 2019.

The Way of the Heart 
The Way of the Heart is an application and website in Spanish which offers digital books connected to the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network.

Notes

External links
Apostleship of Prayer | U.S. Website
Youth and Young Adult Ministry of the Apostleship of Prayer in the U.S.
Apostleship of Prayer | International Website
Apostleship of Prayer Collection at the University of Dayton Archives

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Catholic organizations established in the 19th century
1844 establishments in France
Christian missionary societies
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